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...That was bad luck for the Spanish renewable power company Acciona Energy, which had chosen that day to publicly inaugurate its new Nevada Solar One (NS1) thermal power plant, around 30 miles from Sin City. The sky was darkened and violent winds rattled a canvas tent that held dozens of Acciona executives, energy experts, journalists and even a few celebrities like the astronaut Sally Ride and the ubiquitous green actor Ed Begley, Jr. But while the unusual weather might not have put the Solar One complex in its best light (or often, any light at all), it didn't dampen...
...violent House,” said Timothy J. Smith ’08, last year’s Adams HoCo co-chair. “But if provoked, Adams House promises to deliver swift, vigilante justice...
...Myers:Plenty of mothers have sent sons and sometimes daughters to fight and die for a cause. I'm saying the threshold would be higher, the incentives to look for other options greater. I don't know if this is politically correct or not, but men are more violent. Men have a greater propensity for violence. You say, yeah, well, women get so grouchy. Okay, but they don't go invade another country because they're having...
...think today's films are excessively violent? Should the government do something about it? -John Price, BeijingI think the world's excessively violent. It is hard to say where that originates-whether it's a reflection, or it's reflecting, the world. I think there should be protections in place for parents so that they know what their kids are being taken to, but I don't believe in any control...
...year-round. Ejected from their homeland before the Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere else in the British Empire, says Boyce, "did the British adapt so quickly to the environment." Their dealings with Aborigines swung between cordial and violent, but there was little of the slaughter that was to come...